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Me:
"A thinker is thinking a thought" is simply a construct of a faulty
framework and view of inherent and dualistic self. Just like language is
structured in a way that it often requires subject-action-object
predicates, making us to say things like "the wind is blowing", "I am
thinking a thought"... but is there really a truly existing and
independent thing called "the wind" that "is blowing" or is "wind" and
"blowing" simply two words referring to a single activity? Likewise is
there truly an "I" that is "thinking, a thought" or is "I", "thinking",
and "thought" three different labels imputed on a single activity? Seer,
seeing and seen are just a conventional view... they only appear as
separate, independent existences due to ignorance but such a view does
not tally with reality.

River is flowing doesn't mean there is an
independent thing called "river" that is "flowing", it actually means
river IS the flowing and apart from the flowing there is no river...
just conventional labels applied to a single activity. Wind is blowing
means wind IS the blowing and apart from blowing there is no other
wind... seeing the scenery means seeing IS the seen/scenery and apart
from that seen/scenery there is no other seeing (nor a separate seer),
there is no other consciousness apart from the specific manifest
experience - seen/heard/sensed/smelled/touched/cognized. Mere
conventions applied to a single activity, appearing to co-locate with
each other in an independent and separate manner due to a distorted view
that causes us to misperceive reality in a fundamental way, just like
mis-perceiving a rope as a snake. Once we see that there isn't anything
that 'nouns' point to than pure action/activity, then the verb alone is
sufficient - 'blowing', 'flowing', 'thinking', 'seeing' - which is none
other than the seen, thought, etc. There is no 'you', 'seer', 'thinker'
apart from seeing which is sight, hearing which is sound, etc.

When
we directly contemplate, investigate and challenge our view of
'seer-seeing-seen' and see that in the seen is merely the seen - that
seeing is simply the seen and seen is just the seeing without any seer
apart, that there is no other consciousness apart from the 'mere
seen/mere cognized', a permanent quantum shift of perception takes
place. When this is directly realized in one's experience and not merely
understood inferentially, any delusion of agency (doer, controller,
feeler), subject-object/perceiver-perceived gaps, divisions are seen
through, the gapless/undivided self-clarity of experience without an
agent, center or boundaries simply shines vividly in its raw, direct,
unfiltered purity, and just that is free and liberating in itself. Later
comes this seeing - the mind, the body, the breathing, the environment,
in seamless exertion!

V: "Yes... only verbs... This is a great
pointer!!!! Wow!!! Thank you Soh! I will sit with that pointer! It is so
powerful! It is blowing my "mind" ! How could there ever be a story
only with verbs? Yes! Yes! That's it! A verb can't "build" a self. Thank
you so much!!!!!"